Already stretched, Mexican shelters fret over migrant influx under MPP reboot


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  • Friday, 03 Dec 2021

A general view shows a migrant makeshift camp as the Biden administration will restart a controversial Trump-era border program that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration hearings, at El Chaparral crossing port with the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico December 2, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Stringer

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Migrant shelters in northern Mexico said on Thursday they fear they will be overwhelmed by an influx of asylum seekers next week when the United States resumes a Trump-era program to return them to Mexico.

U.S. President Joe Biden had tried to end the policy as part of a more humanitarian approach to migration, but federal courts ordered a reboot of the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which require asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration hearings. Mexico said Thursday it had agreed to a restart https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-restart-trump-era-border-program-forcing-asylum-seekers-wait-mexico-2021-12-02.

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